Home appliances, meters, transformers and generators could all share data and work together to make the power grid more efficient, for example by lowering the peak load.

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They take you inside through a tunnel that smells of ozone and let you look through glass windows at giant, whirring generators while the guide unfurls the mysteries of turbines and transformers for the rapt crowd.

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